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The wildfire is a powerful mob that is seen in the Luminous Night seasonal adventure. It is a more powerful variant of the blaze, even capable of summoning them. It was originally meant for the Flames of the Nether DLC, but a statue in the Nether Fortress still pays homage to it.
Appearance
A wildfire is a large mob, similar in appearance to a blaze albeit bigger and somewhat tougher. It possesses four large shields which float around it, which act as protection, and a fifth one shaped as a pillar under its head. Its head is that of a normal blaze with the exception of it wearing a helmet, fitted with a small red gem.
Spawning
- Upcoming
Behavior
The wildfire acts as shielded enemy like the royal guard, the skeleton vanguard, and the tower guard, where the enemy's shield must be destroyed first. Unlike most shielded enemies, the wildfire has four shields, all of which must be destroyed before inflicting damage. When low on health, the wildfire will retreat to seek out a fire source to heal itself like blazes, but can also regenerate damaged and destroyed shields.
- Fireskick
Unlike blazes, the wildfire will occasionally shoot a barrage of firesticks instead of fireballs at a hero.
- Ground slam
If a hero gets to close, the wildfire will slam the ground, sending out a small shockwave, knocking back both heroes and mobs.
- Blaze summon
The wildfire will summon blazes to assist it.
History
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| April 4, 2022 | The wildfire was revealed to be returning to the game in the Luminous Night seasonal adventure. | ||||
| April 15, 2022 | The wildfire was revealed to be a mini-boss. It was also revealed that it would spawn in the flames of the Nether missions as well as the tower. | ||||
Data values
- In the game files, the wildfire is referred to internally as the
HoveringInfernowhile it’s shield is referred to internally as theHoveringInferno_Shield.
Trivia
- The wildfire was one of the available mobs players could vote for during MINECON Earth 2017 to be in the main game, with the temporary name "Mob D". The eventual winner of the vote was "Mob B", which would become the Phantom.
- The shield part of the model is a separate model from the wildfire and when spawned in-game with cheats, the game duplicates the shield models to be four.
Gallery
The statue of a wildfire found within the Nether Fortress.
A group of four wildfires spawned into the camp via modding.
The response by one of the developers Marc Watson about the Hovering Inferno, which is also called a wildfire.




